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New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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TRUE BELIEVERS AND HARDWORKING TROUBADOURS: POST-PUNK FOLKSINGER, LEE BAINS, & SWAMP POP HERO, TOMMY MCLAIN

March 8th, 2023

It’s true believers and hardworking troubadours. First, Lee Bains, Birmingham, Alabama’s post-punk folk singer whose songs seek social justice, inclusive humanity and protection of the environs as a sacred quest. Then, octogenarian Louisiana Swamp Pop hero Tommy McLain, who brought his classic ’60s songs and music mix of country, blues, rock, and gospel to clubs and casinos, now recording with Elvis Costello and touring with Nick Lowe. Plus music from Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and Marcia Ball.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Roebuck Parkway Lee Bains and the Glory Fires
    There is a Bomb in Gilead, Alive NaturalSound Records
  • Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
    Hard Tavelin': The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • Midnight Rider Allman Brothers
    Idlewild South, Capricorn
  • Ramblin' Johnny Shines
    Johnny Shines and Robert Lockwood, Paula
  • Ramblin' Man Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys
    Just a Country Singer, Country Masters
  • Instrumental: Ramblin' Charles Lloyd & the Marvels
    Tone Poem, Blue Note
  • Freight Train The Dexateens
    Hardwire Healing, Cornelius Chapel Records
  • 72 (This Highway's Mean) Drive-By Truckers
    Southern Rock Opera, Lost Highway Records
  • SEGMENT: Lee Bains

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  • Instrumental: The Memphis Mail Scott Dunbar
    Voices of Mississippi—Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, Dust-to-Digital
  • Mississippi Goddam Kelsey Waldon, Adia Victoria, Kyshona Armstrong
    Mississippi Goddam single, Oh Boy
  • I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Nina Simone
    Silk & Soul, Sony Entertainment
  • Night Train James Brown
    James Brown—Star Time, UMG
  • Blue Train Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
    Johnny Cash: The Man, the World, His Music, Sun Records
  • Hear My Train A Comin' Jimi Hendrix
    People, Hell and Angels, Experience Hendrix
  • End Bed: Blue Train John Coltrane
    Blue Train, Capitol

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Just Because Tommy McLain
    Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
  • Greenwood Mississippi Little Richard
    Little Richard—The Rill Thing, Reprise
  • Green River Eilen Jewell
    Green River single, Signature Sounds
  • Suzie Q Dale Hawkins
    Presenting Dale Hawkins, Chess
  • Livin' On the Losin End Tommy McLain
    I Ran Down Every Dream, Yep Roc
  • Sweet Suzannah Clint West
    Clint West—Swamp Pop Legend, The Essential Collection, Jin
  • Leavin' Louisiana in the Broad Daylight Marcia Ball
    Outlaws & Armadillos—Country's Roaring Seventies, Sony
  • Instrumental: Switchit Danny James
    Danny James—Boogie in the Mud, Goldband
  • Jukebox Songs Tommy McLain
    Swamp Pop Music, Vol. 2, Demon S&C
  • Try to Find Another Man Tommy McLain, Clint West & the Boogie Kings
    Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
  • Here Comes That Feeling Nick Lowe
    Here Comes That Feeling single, Yep Roc
  • SEGMENT: Tommy McLain

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  • Instrumental: Appelousa Danny James
    Danny James—Boogie in the Mud, Goldband
  • Bama Lama Bama Loo Little Richard
    The Very Best of Little Richard, Specialty
  • Sticks and Stones Tommy McLain
    Tommy McLain: The Essential Collection, Jin
  • Dream a Little Dream of Me Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald
    Love, Ella, Verve
  • Before I Grow Too Old Fats Domino
    Fats Domino—The Complete Imperial Singles, Capitol
  • End Bed: When I Grow Too Old to Dream Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith—Back at the Chicken Shack, Blue Note

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